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Interesting, but somehow doubt that many people have the set-up to handle this number of data.

That's because, despite what the 14 year olds on digg and reddit think, this isn't for you to download on your computer at your house. This is for archival or data-mining purposes.

I apologize for the minor insult at digg/reddit, I just remember a few years ago a link to the archive was posted on digg and everyone started downloading it...unnecessarily wasting wikipedia's limited and donated resources.

If that's a problem, they could have put it up with bittorrent and throttled the bandwidth.

Yeah, this is exactly the sort of problem bittorrent was designed to handle

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